Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-20

The boy says: 'T can't steal" They
kick him into q corner. That night he
puts his swollen head into the straw; but
voice comes from heaven, saying: Cour'
age, poor boy, couragew Covering up his
head from the bestiality, and stopping his
ears from the cursing, he gets on up better
and better. He washes his face clean al
the public hydrant With \. few pennies
got at running errands, he gets
better coat. Rough men, knowing that
he comes from q low street, say: Back
with you, you little villain. to the place
where you came from" But that night
the boy says: God help me, i can't 80
back, 4" and quicker than ever mother few
at the cry of a child's pain, the Lords re-
spends from the heavens: Courage, poor
boy, courage ~ His bright face gets him q
position. After while he is second
clerk. Years pass on, and he is first clerk.
Years pass on. The glory of young man.
hood is on him. He comes into the firm.
He goes on from one business success to
another. He has achieved great fortUne.
He is the friend of the church of God, the
friend of all good institutions, and one day
he stands talking to the Board Of Trade,
or to the Chamber Of Commerce. People
say: "Do you know who that is? Why,
that is a merchant prince, and he was born
on Elm street" But God says in regard
to him something better that that: These
are they which came out Of great tribula-
| ton, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood OF the Lamb" o, for
some one to write the history OF boy heroes
aud girl heroines who have triumphed over
want and starvation, and filth and rags!
Yea, the record has already been made
made by the hand of God; and when these
shall come at last with songs and rejoicing,
it will take q very broad banner to hold
the names of all the battle-felds on which
they got the victory.
Some years ago
A ROUGHLY-CLAD, RAGGED BOY
came into my brothers Office in NewYork,
and said: "Mr. Talmage, lend me five
dollars" My brother said: "Who are
you?" The boy replied al am nobody.
Lend me five dollars" "What do you
want to do with five dollars?" ''Well, " the
Doy replied, my mother is sick and poor,
aud want to go into the newspaper busi-
ness, and | shall get q home for her, and /
will pay you back" My brother gave him
the S., of course never expesting to see it
again, but he said "When will you pay
it?" The boy said: ~ will pay it in six
months, SIR" Time went by, and one
day lad came into my brothers Office and
said: There's your five dollars" What
do You mean? What five dollars?" in
quired my brother. Don't you remem-
her that n boy came in here six months
ago and wanted to borrow s. TO 90 into
the newspaper business?" ''Oh, yes, re-
| member; are you the lad?' "Yes," he
replied, Il have got along nicely. have
got a nice home for my mother (she Is
sick yet, and ] am as well clothed as you
are, and there's your S5?" Oh, was he
not worth saving? Why that lad is
WORTH FIFTY SUCH BOYS
"a have sometimes seen moving in ele-
CANT circles, never put to any use for God
or man. Worth saving! 90 farther than
that; and tell you they are nol
only worth saving, but they are being
saved One Of these lads picked up from
our streets, and sent West by beneyo'
lent society, wrote East saying: 81 am
getting along first rate. am on proba'
tien in the Methodist Church. shall be
entered as member the first Of the month.
| now teach Sunday school class Of eleven
boys. get along first rate with ii. This
is n splendid country to make living in.
If the boys running around the streets
with blacking-bOx on their shoulder, OF
bundle OF papers under their arms, only
knew what high old times we boys have
out here. they wouldn't hesitate about
coming West, but come the first chance
they got" so some by one humane and
Christian visitation, and some by another,
are
BEING RESCUED.
In the reform school, through which two
thousand of the little ones passed, one
thousand nine hundred and ninety five
turned out well. In other words, only
live of the two thousand turned out badly
1 There are thousands of them who, through
Christian societies, have been transplanted
to beautiful homes all over this land, and
there are many who, through the rich
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. have al.
ready won the crown. A little girl was
found in the streets Of Baltimore and taken
into one of the reform societies, and they
said to her: "What is your name?" She
said; my name il Mary" what is your
other nameg" She said: 81 don't know. y
SO they took her into the reform society,
and as they did not know her last name
they always called her MARY Lost, y
since she had been picked up out Of the
street. But she grew on, and after awhile
the Holy Spirit came to her heart, and she
became Christian child, aud she changed
her name; and when anybody asked heI
what her name was, she said: at used
to be Mary Lost; but now, since ] have
become Christian, ii is Mary Found"
For this vast multitude, are we willing
TO 20 forth from this mornings service
and see what we can do, employing all tn,
agencies / have spoken OF for the rectiGca.
ton Of the poisoned fountains? We liv'
IN beautiful city. The lines have fallen
TO us in pleasant places, and we have q
goodly heritage; and any man who doe,
not like residence in Brooklyn, must b,
a most uncomfortable and unreasonable
man. But, my friends, the material pros.
perity OF city is
NOT THE CHlEf GLORY.
There may be fine houses and beautiful
streets, aud that all be the garniture oi .
sepulche. Some Of the most prosperoui
cities OF the world have gone down, no
one stone LEFT upon another. But city
may be in ruins long before tower ha,
fallen, or a column is crumbled, or ,
tomb has been defaeed. When in city
the churches Of God are full Of formalitie'
and inanimate religion; when the house
Of commerce are the abode o
fraud and unholy traffic; when the street.
are filled with crime unarrested and sir
unenIightened aud helplessnes unpitied-
that city is in ruins, though every churci
were St Peters, and every moneyed in
stitution were a Bank Of England, ant
every library were British Museum, and
every house had a porch like that o
Rheims, and a roof like that Of Amiens
and a tower like that Of Antwerp, an,
traceried windows like those Of Freiburg
Ny brethren, our pulses beat rapid!
TIE time away. and soon we shall be gone
, and what we have 10 do for the city il
which we live we must do right speedily
or never do it at all In that day whel
those who have wrapped themselves b
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